Monthly Archives: January 2017

Ikea is the the global leader in the furniture market, and the United States is no exception. The invasion began when the Swedish furniture-selling powerhouse landed on American soil in 1985. Since then Ikea has become the top-ranked specialty furniture store in the country. In 2013, the Swedish retailer’s sales amounted to about $2.7 billion in the U.S., up from $2.5 billion in 2012. The American company Williams-Sonoma took second place with sales of approximately $2.2 billion in 2013.

We have already seen that regular exercise is better for your health in almost every aspect than the recommended seven hours of daily sleep. Let’s take a look at where the U.S. population stands on the issue.

The Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) is rife with criticism of its policy missteps. From the “inflation fighter” Paul Volker in the late 70s and early 80s to the “kept interest rates too low for too long” Alan Greenspan, many Fed observers see the mistakes of the U.S. central bank as an indication that the Fed is too limited in foresight to provide reliable policy guidance.

The American bar, tavern and nightclub industry generated $24.35 billion in income in 2015. It grows slightly each year; in comparison, the revenue of the industry was only $19.14 billion in 2003. By the end of 2016, the industry’s revenue will be approximately $25 billion according to a forecast published on Statista.com. In 2017 the income of the U.S. bars and nightclubs is forecasted to reach $25.74 billion.

The U.S. Census Bureau provides us with a lot of interesting data about new homes in their Survey of Construction. Today we look at the sale prices of homes in regard to their location (i.e. whether or not they are located in a Metropolitan Statistical Area).

The first terrorist attack in the United States was recorded on April 14, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln was shot in Washington, D.C. and died a day after. Since then, terrorist attacks have occurred regularly in the country, but the most shocking attack in the history happened in New York City on September 11, 2001. As a result of the crashing of two hijacked planes into the World Trade Center towers, 2,759 people died and 8,700 were injured. Now the global threat is the Islamic State (ISIS), a terrorist organization that promotes violence and bloodshed and follows a very extreme form of Islam known as Salafism.

A lot of people exercise first thing in the morning. With many of them leading quite busy lives, that usually means less sleep. And while nearly everyone understands the benefits of regular exercise for their health, the sleep is also quite important.

But is it actually more important? We are not talking about people who don’t get enough sleep even without trying to fit gym sessions into their schedule. But maybe you should ditch that morning workout if that puts you over the coveted seven hours of sleep?

In the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of motorcycle sales and registrations in the United States. Motorcycle registrations in the United States have grown by 75 percent, from 3,826,373 in 1997 to 6,678,958 in 2006 (according to the United States Department of Transportation). If we examine the information showing the number of registered motorcycles (including private, commercial and publicly owned) published at Statista.com in 2013, we see that California had the highest number of registered motorcycles (799,990). Florida came in second with 545,452 registered motorcycles. In 2013, there were 443,856 motorcycles registered in Texas. In Ohio and Pennsylvania, the numbers of registered motorcycles amounted to 402,264 and 400,908 motorcycles respectively.

In the two previous installments of our series on given names (Part 1 and Part 2), we considered various aspects of the given name data from 1880 to the present day compiled by the Social Security Administration [1]. In this final article, we are going to have a look at the incidence of unisex names and nicknames.